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20th Mar 2026
Opinion

The Human Skill That Still Eludes AI – And Why Assessment Needs Ground Truth

By Mark House

AI is arriving in education as if it were a cure‑all for workload and consistency. Sales decks promise tools that “judge writing like teachers”, “skip marking altogether”, and “cut workload by 90 per cent”. It is an attractive story in a system under pressure. But if we listen carefully to the people building these systems – and to the artists responding to them – a different story emerges. The core human skill that good work depends on is still beyond today’s models. If we ignore that, we risk building assessment systems that are perfectly aligned to the wrong thing.
19th Mar 2026
Opinion

Back to the Future: Rethinking Assessment in a World of Uncertainty

By Mark House

In 1792, revolutionaries in Paris abolished a king, Americans calmly re‑elected a president, and Cambridge quietly invented something that still shapes millions of lives every year: exam marking. While politics and industry were being rebuilt in public, assessment was being rebuilt on paper. Two centuries later, we are still living inside that decision – and only now starting to see its limits.
19th Mar 2026
Copyright

A Potential Copyright Checklist for Choosing AI Assessment Tools (4/4)

By Mark House

Over this series, we’ve tried to do three things: explain why UK copyright policy on AI is shifting, argue that student work should be treated as creative property rather than free fuel, and sketch when – if ever – training on that work might be legitimate.
19th Mar 2026
Copyright

Training on Student Work: Saying “Yes” (and “No”) Safely (3/4)

By Mark House

So far in this series, we’ve argued that student work is creative property, not just “data”, and that assessment use and training use are not the same thing. That naturally leads to a harder question: is it ever acceptable to train models on student work – and if so, on what terms?

10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Beyond GDPR: Using the UK AI Product Safety Standards to Judge Your Assessment Tools

By Mark House

In this series, we’ve been arguing that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment in an agentic world. We started by looking at the infrastructure we’ll need for sovereign intelligence, then at the difference between sovereign systems and AI wrappers, and most recently at dark patterns that steer people into feeding someone else’s models.
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

The Sovereign Exit: Why Portability is the Ultimate Trust Test

By Mark House

In our series on digital sovereignty, we have explored how "Harvesting Models" use dark patterns to bypass consent and how "AI Wrappers" quietly extract value from your institutional judgment data. But there is one final, definitive test of a vendor’s intent: What happens when you want to leave?
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Dark Patterns in AI Assessment: When “Consent” Steals Your Sovereignty

By Mark House

In earlier posts we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that organisations need infrastructure which lets them own and operate their own intelligence. There’s another layer to this: even if the architecture is centralised, the interface can quietly decide who wins. The way AI is presented in a product can make the difference between a conscious choice and a gentle shove.
10th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

When “AI Wrappers” Harvest Your Judgment Data

By Mark House

In the last two posts, we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that the real work now is building the infrastructure that lets organisations own and operate their own intelligence.
9th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Why Sovereignty is the Only Sustainable Path: The Future of Professional Judgment

By Mark House

In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously noted that "Software is eating the world." By 2024, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang updated that reality: "AI is eating software." As we move into 2026, we are entering the final stage of this evolution: Agents are eating the enterprise.
9th Feb 2026
Data Sovereignty

Building the Global Infrastructure for Professional Judgment in an Agentic World

By Mark House

The vision of a truly data-driven system is no longer a distant goal; it is the immediate frontier. In 2026, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how organisations understand data and expertise. This isn't just a story for schools; it is a global movement toward Sovereign Intelligence that spans every sector where human judgment matters.
7th Feb 2026
Curriculum for Wales

Beyond the Scorecard: Welcoming the New Era of Welsh Educational Data

By Mark House

The recent publication of the Data and Information to Support Learning and Improvement Impact Assessment by the Welsh Government marks a watershed moment for education in Wales. It signals a definitive move away from narrow, high-stakes accountability and toward a holistic, learner-centered "Information Ecosystem."
6th Feb 2026
Opinion

Roadmap Update - Compass and maps

By Mark House

In the world of education and assessment, the terrain shifts daily. A “map” - whether it’s a static dashboard or a rigid three-year product plan - is only truly useful if the world stands still. But when the environment moves faster than your plan, a map quickly becomes a liability.
2nd Feb 2026
Opinion

The Recruitment Arms Race: Why We Are Losing the "Signal in the Noise"

By Mark House

The latest edition of the Inside your Ed podcast, titled "Why are so many graduates struggling to find a job?", highlights a growing crisis in the graduate labour market. While much of the conversation focuses on economic cooling, a key section reveals a more systemic failure: the total collapse of the traditional hiring process.

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